At Physical Therapy Specialists we base all of our training on scientific facts and research. For more information about our trainers and “no nonsense” approach to fitness and weight loss, please read our descriptions below.

Trainers

Brian Sutton

Education:

• BS – Cal State Fresno
• California College of Chiropractic
• ACE Certificate of Personal Training
• IAHIT – Master Training Certificate

Background

• Over 36 years of experience and training.
• Trained under guidance and instruction of Arthur Jones, inventor of Nautilus/Med-X exercise equipment.
• Trained under guidance and supervision of Mike Mentzer, former Mr. Olympia and accomplished writer and publisher of numerous books on exercise and nutrition.
• Trained clients from 1978 to present.
• Extensive experience and training at UC San Diego School of Medicine for back and neck rehabilitation.
• Trained numerous men and women clients for fitness, figure and body-building competitions.
• Competed in numerous bodybuilding competitions from 1979 to 2000.

Nancy Browning

Certifications

• ACE Certificate of Personal Training
• IAHIT – Master Training Certificate

Background

• 2001 Light Weight Ms. Los Angeles
• Top 3 placing in over 10 Bodybuilding Fitness Contests
• Has been training clients for 29 years
• Age 58 and mother of two

Fitness and Weight Loss Training

Anaerobic (without the presence of oxygen)

Anaerobic training consists of resistance training performed at a brisk pace working toward “muscular failure” (temporary inability to perform a repetition in good form). This uses glycogen as a primary energy source during the workout as the muscles cannot mobilize fatty acids rapidly enough. Strength training has several benefits to fitness:

1. It works the cardio-respiratory system hard.
2. It builds new muscle up to an optimal level (depending if your a man or a woman). This new muscle increases metabolism which burns more calories throughout the day.
3. Even after new muscle is no longer being acquired, the intense stimulation of the Type 2 muscle fibers (anaerobic) continues to enhance your metabolism. Research has shown Type 2 muscle fibers burn fat after the workout and for the next several days.
4. And, of course, for men and woman, muscle give the body its overall shape and prevents excessive looseness of the skin during fat loss. We recommend two days per week of anaerobic training on non-consecutive days.

Aerobic Training (with oxygen)

Aerobic or “cardio” training principles can often be misleading. Although aerobic training burns fat during the exercise, it actually burns at lower levels contrary to what most “weight loss programs” lead you to believe. We utilize this type training in the form of treadmill, bike or cross-training machines depending on the fitness level of the client. It is very easy to get carried away and work too intensely during aerobic training. If intensity is too high, glycogen(sugar) is burned, not FAT! We recommend four sessions per week at correct heart rate levels.

Diet – The 3500 Calorie Diet

To put it quite simply, if you don’t cut calories but instead try to “work it off” you will fail to lose any significant fat . . . period! The key to losing fat is absurdly simple, yet still not easy. You must count calories and take in less than you expend, and no low carb or South Beach or any other fad diet can ignore this biological fact.

For long term permanent fat loss, find your average maintenance level of calories and reduce that figure by 500 calories a day (500 x 7 = 3,500 calories or 1 pound of fat loss per week). Coupled with anaerobic and proper aerobic exercise, most men can lose two pounds of fat per week; women one to one and a half pounds per week, and keep it off without starving and with minimal discomfort.

To conclude, this brief summary of our diet and exercise principles are nothing original. This has been known and verified and used with great success for many years. But, perhaps because of its relative simplicity and lack of having to buy expensive supplements, potions or pills, no one has tried to sell you these “book of secrets.”